How to Relocate Your Horoscope

You were born at a particular time, date and place. This resulted in your natal horoscope.

Sometimes we wish to move to a place that is more advantageous for us. We can see what the vibrations will be like, what our “fate” will be like, at the new location by relocating our chart.

We are using American President Barack Obama for this example. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4th. However that same moment in time, when the planets’ relationships with each other were the same, the angles and houses of the horoscopes are different in different locations. It is night hours in the mainland (continental) USA. It is just after sunrise in London, and it is earlier in the afternoon in Sydney, Australia.

The above chart is for Obama in Chicago.  Why do you think he considers Chicago his home town?  One reason he likes Chicago would be having Jupiter, the planet of politics, conjunct his Midheaven of public reputation and fame.  Now let's look at his chart in Washington, DC.

For Washington, Obama has the Moon right on the Ascendant, he naturally connects with his Moon in Gemini nature: lots of information, talk, and other Gemini things.  Obama also has the Sun and Fortuna conjunct the 4th House cusp or IC.  He is fortunate in his home--the White House!

What if Obama is in London? 

London has Black Moon Lilith right on the Ascendant.  This suggests that in London, and to his UK audience, Obama promises more than he delivers.

Let's look in a totally different part of the world, Sydney, Australia:

Sydney would not be Obama's favorite town.  Saturn, the Great Disciplinarian, is close to his Ascendant.  Obama's role in Sydney is to be stern and to make others tow the line.  Saturn in Obama's natal chart is buried in his 12th House, he is not comfortable expressing Saturn.  In Sydney he has to.  Probably not a favorite spot for the president.

If your astrology software does not automatically relocate a chart for you, here is how to do it:

• Cast your natal chart.

• Note the sign, degrees and minutes of the Moon’s position—the Moon will remain at that exact position in all the correct relocated charts!

• Notice the time of your birth—almost all relocations will have the exact same minutes of time. (In our example, Obama’s birth is at 7:24 PM, all the other charts are set for 24 minutes after the hour in the new locations.)

• Choose a location to examine. Cast your chart for that location by entering your own date and time of birth, but the new location.

• Modify the time by the number of time zones (one hour earlier or later for each time zone) between your actual birthplace and this new one.

• A correct chart will have the Moon in the exact same position in the zodiac.

Now the complex part: interpreting the new chart. Look mostly to the angles of the horoscope. What you will most experience at the new location is planets that were angular in your natal chart and now are not, and planets that were in obscurity in your natal chart and now are angular.


Good luck!

Lalia Wilson

Lalia Wilson sees astrology as a way to understand one’s own life, one’s relationships and current patterns. Astrology is not deterministic, but rather has patterns of symbolic meaning which will be expressed in some fashion as the pattern unfolds. Contact Lalia at Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. Astrology consultations require a person’s name, birth date, time and place. All astrology consultations and Kofutu Healings are pre-paid. Consultations are by telephone to US clients, or by e-mail anywhere.

Jesse James was born on September 5th, or Was He?

American outlaw Jesse James was born at “midnight” between September 4th and 5th 1847 (Local Mean Time) in Kearney, Clay County, Missouri. James was likely born at home, and the time was local mean, or sun, time. This was before standardized time zones in the USA. So the translation of “middle of the night” to “midnight: 12:00 AM” is full of error. And we can see that when we look at the chart set for one minute after midnight on September 5th. The chart features a Cancer Ascendant and is more the chart of a shopkeeper or cook than that of a notorious outlaw. If he was born on September 4th or 5th with a Cancer Ascendant, his ruling planet would be the Moon located in its home sign of Cancer in the 1st House, widely conjunct Jupiter in Cancer. At the top of the chart is Saturn in Pisces conjunct the Midheaven. This describes a man who is law-abiding, poetic, emotional, sentimental… Not a man considered the most famous outlaw of the Old West.

So, let’s step back and see what chart would be a famous outlaw. Wikipedia describes James thus, “Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.” Outlaw, gang leader, robber. Okay, ONE of the planets, Mercury, is called the God of Thieves. Perhaps if James was born just a little bit earlier, with Gemini rising, we could bring in some of the thievery. So, we back up the chart, and after some fine-tuning, set a chart for September 4th at 11:08 PM. This chart fits James the man and James the legend. It also dramatically ties in to James’s death by shooting.

Notice that at 11:08 PM, we have the opposition of Mercury and Neptune, ruling opposing signs, lined up with the MC/IC axis. This is a chart for a Legendary (Neptune) Outlaw (Mercury)! To become a legend, one needs an outer planet, particularly Neptune, the planet of dreams, myths and fables.

But if that is not convincing enough, look at the tri-wheel for James’s death. Both secondary progressed Ceres, and transiting Ceres are lined up right on that MC/IC. Ceres, seen as the Goddess of Mothers, is also the Goddess of Death.

Also from Wikipedia: “Jesse James remains a controversial symbol, one who can always be reinterpreted in various ways, according to cultural tensions and needs. Although some of the neo-Confederate movement regard him as a hero, renewed cultural battles over the place of the Civil War in American history have replaced the long-standing interpretation of James as a Western frontier hero. Recent historians place him as a self-aware vigilante and terrorist who used local tensions to create his own myth among the widespread insurgent guerrillas and vigilantes following the American Civil War.”

James has been portrayed as the main character in over twenty films, and numerous television shows, books and songs.


Lalia Wilson

Lalia Wilson sees astrology as a way to understand one’s own life, one’s relationships and current patterns. Astrology is not deterministic, but rather has patterns of symbolic meaning which will be expressed in some fashion as the pattern unfolds. Contact Lalia at Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. Astrology consultations require a person’s name, birth date, time and place. All astrology consultations and Kofutu Healings are pre-paid. Consultations are by telephone to US clients, or by e-mail anywhere.

Caligula, Gladiators, and Football Omens

Friday evening a young man died in an arena: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/31/fan-falls-from-upper-level-of-georgia-dome/?partner=popular  the fall occurred at about 8:30 PM EDT in Atlanta, GA, on August 31, 2012. The young man, a resident of Lenoir City, TN, died later that evening in the hospital.

This was the opening game of the season for the University of Tennessee Volunteers Football Team, and their opponents Georgia State. For this reason, the fall and the death are more indicative of things to come, as it is the BEGINNING of the season.

The fall occurred as Mars, planet of violence and brutality, was in the 8th House of Death, sextile Sun, indicator of the life force, and both quincunx the planet of sudden events, Uranus.  This formed a fateful pattern called a Yod, or Finger of God.  A young man, Mars, had his life snuffed out, Sun, suddenly, Uranus!


I have learned about the importance of omens, events that coincide with first actions or decisions that may signify their importance or future, from the work of astrologers Mark Lerner, with his Planet Earth magazine and website, and Ray Grasse. Grasse wrote the book The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives, which I recommend to anyone interested in symbols. Both men advocate watching for coincidences. One would be the death of 20-year old Tennessean, Jonathon Kelly, on Friday. But there is another that speaks of arenas. Friday was the anniversary of the birth of famed Roman Emperor, the Third Emperor of the Roman Empire, Caligula. Caligula was a hugely controversial figure. Few contemporary accounts exist of him, but those accounts depict a man of cruelty and many evil actions, along with drunkenness and sexual licentiousness. Caligula was assassinated by his own people before he served 5 years. Caligula was the emperor during what was called the Gladiator Games. These “games” were held in Rome at the largest arena available, which was the Colloseum after its construction in 80 CE. But the Gladiatorial Games date from 264 BCE to 435 CE, and killed 3.5 million people, making them the 28th worst atrocity of human history according to historian Matthew White, writing in his recent book The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities.

How does Caligula figure into this story? Wikipedia quotes Gregory Aldrete’s "Daily life in the Roman City", “Once at some games at which he [Caligula] was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.”

Perhaps there is a human thirst for a spectacle, for public death and sacrifice, and as the planets align this occurs.

Lalia Wilson

Lalia Wilson has been a professional astrologer since 1973 when she passed the AFA professional level teacher exam. Wilson sees astrology as a way to understand one’s own life, one’s relationships and current patterns. Astrology is not deterministic, but rather has patterns of symbolic meaning which will be expressed in some fashion as the pattern unfolds. In addition to astrology, Wilson offers Kofutu Absent Healing as an additional way to assist clients. Contact Lalia at Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. Astrology consultations require a person’s name, birth date, time and place. All astrology consultations and Kofutu Healings are pre-paid. Consultations are by telephone to US clients, or by e-mail anywhere.